Corset



(N0 Model.)

. A. BARATET.

CORSET.

No. 383,687. Patented May 29, .1888.

WITNESSES:

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE,

PROSPER A. BARATET, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,687. dated May 29,1888. Application filed March 12, 1887. Serial No. 230,629. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PROSPER A. BARATET, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia,-State ofPennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of a corsetembodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section or partthereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

My invention consists of a corset having means for providing for naturaldefects in the body of the wearer.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a corset, which, excepting thefeatures of my invention, isof usual form and construction. To theinside of the corset there are secured bands or pieces B O, of suitablefabric, which are set back from the body of the corset, the band B beinglocated behind the back portion of one side of the corset, and the bandC behind the hip portion thereof, it being seen that each band occupiespart of the inner wall thereof, the outer wall of the corset, however,being of the usual contour.

By means of the bandsB Oprovision is made for natural defects of thehuman body at the back and hip thereof; but, as is evident, defects inthe bust or other portions of the same may also be provided for bysecuring bands similar to B O to the proper part of the inside of thecorset.

The bands B C bear against the defective part ofthe body of the wearer;but the portions of the corset outside of said bands preserve the shapedesirable in corsets, and thereby conceal the defects as referred to.

The inner wall of the corset is provided'with stays D, which areopposite to the bands B O and extend in horizontal directions, the usualvertical stays of the corset, however, being employed, so that theportions of the corset opposite the bands, while being of highlyflexible nature, possess sufficient rigidity to preserve their shapewhen the corset is worn, said portions, owing to the bands B 0, beingset out from the contiguous outer garments similar to corsets heretoforemade.

I am aware that it is old to make a corset having inner pieces on thefront portion thereof forthe purpose of securing in position pads, theobject of said pads being to hold up or press the breastsin a lateraldirection, so as to givea full or rounded appearance to the same. I amalso aware that it is not new to secure flaps to the inner face of anunderwaist, the said flaps being secured together in front by means ofstrings or otherwise, and such I do not claim; but I am not aware thatit is old to make a corset and provide the same with inner pieces or strips having their ends secured to the corset by a row or rows ofstitching, for the purpose of fitting the same to the shape of thefigure; neither is it old, so far as I am aware, to provide the innerwalls of the corset opposite to the said pieces or strips with staysplaced in a horizontal position, whereby the said portion of thecorsetis materially strengthened, and thereby enabled to preserve itsproper outward shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

An anatomical corset consisting of a body having secured thereto andwithin the same, at a place corresponding to the place of defect in thebody of the wearer thereof, a strap of fixed length-secured at both endsby a row of stitching, (the position and length of said strap beingdetermined by the character of the defeet in the body of the wearer,)the said corset-body having opposite to the strap and on the inner wallthereof horizontal stays, said parts being combined substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

, P. A. BARATET.

Witnesses:

J OHN W. WIEDERsHEIM, JAS. F. KELLY.

